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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 13 May 2004 Lamotkin AT softhome.net wrote:

> 
> Thanks to all of you for the help.
> MC from BL1 site really works with BL3. I tired to revive other mc's
> from earlier SW versions.
> (For me it's strange to create such a mix of OS versions,
> I was actually looking for a "lightweight" Linux distribution,
> the one derived from a recent version, but coming with tiny
> utilities/packages set, while allowing a user to add desired
> software.)
> So let's close the issue.
> There is another problem. I'm trying to deploy tetris from BL1.
> It needs "libvga.so.1" to run.
> The general question is how to find "some_lib" among a distribution
> file set. Is there any Must_Die-like "layout.inf" to determine
> the ".tgz"? Or maybe there is a web search engine looking through
> archives? 

Can you just copy over the libvga from BL1 in this case?  BL1 and BL3 use 
the same library.  Make sure you also have a symlink from the version that 
the program calls for to the one you have if they are different.  ln -s 
actual called-for.  Or you can just rename your version.

BL2 has a MANIFEST.gz (large file) that lists all the files and where they 
go.  zless MANIFEST.gz.  Lynx will read gz files online, links won't.

What is the equivalent of MANIFEST.gz for BL1 and 3 (SW 3 and 4)?

> 
> Roman. 
> 
> 
> 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org writes: 
> 
> > Lamotkin AT softhome.net wrote:
> >>
> >> ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/slackware/slackware-7.1/slakware/ap1/mc.tgz
> >> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/bl3-21.zip 
> > 
> > That version of mc requires glibc2.  BL3 uses libc5, a completely 
> > different library.  Although BL3 can use kernels and modules from 
> > Slackware 7.1, it can't use the packages (in the /slakware directory).  
> > Packages for libc5 can be found in Slackware 3 or 4. 
> > 
> >> I looked inside "mc" and saw it requires '/lib/ld-linux.so.2' 
> >> which is not installed on the system.  Where can I get this 
> >> masterpiece 
> > 
> > That is part of the glibc2 library.  You will need more than
> > that to run that particular version of mc.   
> > 
> >> Sindi said she got "mini-mc" working on BL2 and proposed me 
> >> to search it over the i-net. I failed. Do you know a link? 
> > 
> > Perhaps Sindi was referring to the mini-mc package for BL1 
> > (BL1 uses the same library as BL3).  Click on the BL1 link 
> > (at the bottom of the BasicLinux homepage).    
> > 
> > I think somebody tried the BL1 mini-mc and found it worked OK 
> > on BL3.  However, if you want a more complete mc, you can install 
> > the mc package from Slackware 3 or 4.  However, you might need 
> > to install an additional package or two to get that mc to work.  
> > IIRC that mc requires the gpm mouse package. 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
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